PR E5 THE MERMAID SERIES EDITED BY HAVELOCK ELLIS. THE BEST PLAYS OF THE OLD DRAMATISTS. JOHN FORD. In Half-Crown Monthly Volumes uniform with the present Work. THE MERMAID SERIES. THE BEST PLAYS OF THE OLD DRAMATISTS. The following comprise the earlier Volumes of the Series: MARLOWE. Edited by HAVELOCK ELLIS. With a General Introduction by J. A. SYMONDS. MASSINGER. Edited by ARTHUR SYMONS. MIDDLETON. With an Introduction by A. C. SWINBURNE. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER (2 vols.). Edited by ST. LOE STRACHEY. CONGREVE. Edited by ALEXANDER C. EWALD. DEKKER. Edited by ERNEST RHYS. SHIRLEY. With an Introduction by EDMUND GOSSE. NERO AND OTHER PLAYS. Edited by H. P. HORNE, &C. WEBSTER & CYRIL TOURNEUR. Edited by J. A. SYMONDS. WYCHERLEY. Edited by W. C. WARD. FORD. Edited by HAVELOCK ELLIS. BEN JONSON (3 vols.). Edited by BRINSLEY NICHOLSON and C. H. HERford. OTWAY. Edited by the Hon. RODEN NOEL. THOMAS HEYWOOD (2 vols). Edited by J. A. SYMONDS and A. W. VERITY. SHADWELL. Edited by GEORGE SAINTSBURY. THE PARSON'S WEDDING AND OTHER PLAYS. Edited by W. C. WARD and A. W. VERITY. ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM, and other Plays attributed to SHAKESPEARE. Edited by ARTHUR SYMONS. DRYDEN (2 vols). Edited by R. GARNETT. CHAPMAN (2 vols). Edited by BRINSLEY NICHOLSON and W. G. STONE. ETHEREDGE & SEDLEY. Edited by A. SYMONS. "What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Master Francis Beaumont to Ben Jonson. "Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?" Keats. LONDON: J. S. VIRTUE AND CO., LIMITED, PRINTERS, CITY ROAD. |